Please Come to Boston, by Gary Goldstein

First times, fast times, and past times.

Get all the news you need by listening to WBZ NewsRadio 1030 on the free #iHeartRadio app! Or ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please Come to Boston Fall this great time. Welcome to
the WZ book Club. Jordan Rich here latest book from
Gary Goldstein, an award winning writer of film, television and theater,
and it's a novel called Please Come to Boston. Memories
from that song in the seventies come floating back when
you hear that title. It's set in the mid seventies

(00:20):
with locales all around Boston that you'll recognize. Our characters
are in their first semester at Boston University and the
story is one of relationships between an eighteen year old
freshman named Nicki, young and inexperienced, getting to know the
city and upon moving into his dorm, he meets Joe,
a friendly jock type. Adding to the relationship triumvirate is
a girl named Laurie. The novel turns out to be

(00:40):
not only a coming of age story, but a coming
out story, involving the complexity of bisexual relationships and how
people's lives evolve over the decades through the AIDS Crisis
nine to eleven and beyond. Please Come to Boston by
Gary Goldstein, with Our Fair City being one of the
lead characters. And that's the book club w B z
Boston's news radio